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01.15.1999 - GnomeREPORT

It sounds like Microsoft has their hands full with Office 2000. At least we're pretty sure it'll be out the door in 1999 (unlike some other "2000" products). I'm rather disappointed, though. I hear they've disabled the MDI (multiple document interface) in Word 2000 because of a contention with WordMail. That means, every time you open up a new document, it'll appear in a whole new instance of Word 2000. Imagine if you had 20 documents open at once. OUCH! And speaking of "ouch", have you heard about the pricing for this new Office suite?

The first column lists the Office 2000 version, the second shows the upgrade price, the third has the competitive upgrade price for non-Microsoft products, and the last column lists the (deadly) price if you're purchasing Office for the first time:

       Version  Upgr  Comp   New
      Standard  $209  $249  $499
Small Business  $209  $249  $499
  Professional  $309  $349  $599
       Premium  $399  $449  $799
     Developer  $609  $649  $999

Standard: Word, Excel, Outlook, & PowerPoint
Small Business: Word, Excel, Outlook, Publisher, & Small Business tools
Professional: Everything in Standard, Small Business, plus Access
Premium: Everything in Professional, plus FrontPage & PhotoDraw
Developer: Everything in Premium, plus tools & database runtimes

Thanks to Windows-Help.net for compiling this information!

-- Chris Pirillo        


GnomePROGRAM

Cupertino v1998-10-10 [301k] W9x/NT FREE
Found by Christopher Nye

http://members.xoom.com/seanhu/Cupertino.zip
http://members.xoom.com/seanhu/

Getting a file from one computer to another is usually an easy task. If two computers are sitting across the room from one another, it's simple to do. And, of course, copying a file from your computer to an FTP site isn't a problem. But what about copying or moving files between two different FTP sites? Um... never seen it done before--until now. Sure, Cupertino is like most other FTP clients (drag & drop, keyboard controls, local-to-remote & remote-to-local file transfers, etc.). But it's unique in the sense that it'll allow you to copy, move, and/or delete multiple items (including directories) between two different FTP servers or within the same FTP server. Killer!


GnomeSYSTEM

Ensoniq Sound Card Upgrades
Found by Rafael Diaz

http://www.ensoniq.com/multimedia/mm_html/html/driver_intro.htm

Since Creative Technology acquired Ensoniq, they've been working together to release new driver revisions for Ensoniq cards (most often found in Gateway desktops). Get the drivers for the AudioPCI (which will upgrade it to a SoundbBlasterPCI 64), Soundscape VIVO/VIVO90, Soundscape, as well as the SoundscapeElite. Well, at least they're still supported.


GnomeCANDY

Flo's Screen Savers & Mouse Fun
Found by Rohan Parkes

http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Park/1306/index_e.htm

I'm a Teke (proud member of the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity, Delta Tau chapter); we recently celebrated our centennial. I had been looking for a good "skull" screen saver (one of our many symbols). I was overjoyed when I discovered that this author had created one (and it was darn cool, to boot)! Then, I started to check out his other screen savers, and became even more impressed. They're 3D, configurable, and have a dark sense of humor (my kind of guy). Be sure to check out his mouse toy, too (it's an odometer that shows you how far your mouse would have traveled to get to the moon).


GnomeFAVORITE

FindHere.com

http://www.findhere.com/

For a long while, 'surf.to' and 'jump.to' addresses were all the rage. And don't get me wrong, they still work. But what if you'd rather market your site as a ".com" address without having all the slashes, numbers, and tildes involved? At Findhere.com, you can get your own subdomain name (and e-mail address) for free. So, you could have "monkey.freehere.com" instead of "www.blahyadda.com/9832/32/~monkey/". Which do you think your visitors are more likely to remember? I thought so.


GnomeDESKTOP

FONTS: Glowing Servo Handwriting

http://www.pagesz.net/~mhare/fonts/

They say that you can tell a lot about an individual by the way their handwriting looks. If that's the case, I'm a capitalist slob (I write in all CAPS and tend to be messy when in a hurry). I never write anything out by hand anymore, lest it be on a Post-It note or something. Here's a small collection of "female" handwritten fonts for you to download--for whatever reason. Now you can trick your close friends into believing that you retrained yourself to print legibly.


GnomeTIP

How many windows do you have open on the screen at one time? I try not to multitask 30 apps at once, but it's difficult to avoid at times. You can easily flip between open windows by using the ALT+TAB keyboard shortcut. Of course, you can also switch between apps by using the Windows taskbar. Or, try right-clicking on the Windows taskbar and selecting either Cascade Windows, Tile Windows Horizontally, or Tile Windows Vertically. Or, if all else fails, drag the different windows around until you find the one you really want.